According to recent survey results from global investment management firm BlackRock, women are more optimistic than ever about their financial futures. The BlackRock Global Investor Pulse Survey reports that just over half, 51 percent, of women feel positive about their financial futures, compared with 46 percent the prior year. Forty-two percent say they are confident [...]
NEW YORK (AP) — Get ready for investments to be merely good again. They’ve already been great for years, as both stocks and bonds have delivered fat returns since the worst of the financial crisis passed in 2009. But after such a strong and long gallop upward, markets have many reasons to slow down, analysts [...]
HAVANA — Cuba is failing to meet its self-imposed foreign investment targets two years after détente with the United States set off the greatest surge of business interest in the country since its 1959 socialist revolution, officials said. Foreign Commerce Minister Rodrigo Malmierca told foreign business people and diplomats at the country’s annual trade fair [...]
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Yes, you could call it free money. But that doesn’t mean all Alaskans are happy about the $1,022 dividend checks nearly every resident will receive starting Thursday from the state’s oil wealth fund. Folks were looking at getting more than twice that amount. “It’s really putting the hurt on my community,” said [...]
As crowdfunding becomes an ever-more successful method of raising capital for entrepreneurs who embark on a business startup, a Republican state lawmaker has proposed a bill to make it easier for Ohio residents to identify new businesses and investment opportunities via online, group funding. House Bill 593 would allow for intrastate equity crowdfunding under certain [...]
APOPKA, Fla. — Many of the single-family homes in the Piedmont Park neighborhood of Apopka, Fla., used to be owned by families — the Vargases and the Townes, the Pierces and the Riddles. Now, they’re owned by Blackstone, American Homes 4 Rent and Colony Starwood Homes, companies associated with big real estate investment firms. And [...]